I hope Chief Justice John Roberts
remains so vain he
would wish not to be seen as a new Roger
Taney*
the Chief Justice who wrote the
Dred Scott decision†,
who, I've heard said, loved the dread
Inquisition.
Both Taney and Roberts came from
privileged positions
without feeling for/interest in others'
positions.
To their similarities (many)
I will not allude,
except to add that if they're equal we're
screwed.
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*[F]ifth
chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. . .He was
the first Roman Catholic to serve on the Supreme Court. —
Encyclopædia Britannica
†legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. — Ibid
†legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on March 6, 1857, ruled (7–2) that a slave (Dred Scott) who had resided in a free state and territory (where slavery was prohibited) was not thereby entitled to his freedom; that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States; and that the Missouri Compromise (1820), which had declared free all territories west of Missouri and north of latitude 36°30′, was unconstitutional. — Ibid